Etymology
Origin of pumper
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He was called Grandpa or The Pumper for how he would ride up on the horse's neck and pump its head to try to get it going.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2016
I know your position for which you and Pumper are subject to vicious attacks by the above defined brigade.
From Economist • Oct. 19, 2012
Last week Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to know who was entitled to the dividend�the Guild or Pumper Whitney?
From Time Magazine Archive
He came as close as anyone has to beating Wall Street's gag about merging Worthington Pump and International Nickel, to get Pumper Nickel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The servant Pumper is a man of feeling, who grieves that the horses trod the dewdrops from the blades of grass.
From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Hewett-Thayer, Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
